Phd in DOCUMENTATION STUDIES, LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE

Eliana Angela Pollone studied in Turin where, after secondary school (classics curriculum), she obtained a five-year degree in Psychology with a thesis entitled ‘The representations of crime and punishment in letters to newspapers’ (with a 109/110 mark and honours). At the University of Turin she then obtained a three-year degree in Literature by presenting a thesis on the journalistic prose of Guido Gozzano for the 1911 Turin Exposition (with a 110/110 mark and double honours) and finally, in 2017, the master’s degree in Italian Literature, Philology and Linguistics, working on the edition of the letters of the poet, painter and publisher Domenico Buratti to the painter Vittoria Cocito (with a 110/110 mark, honours, and recommended for publication).

She attended the School of Archivistics, Paleography and Diplomatics at the State Archives of Turin (2007-2009) and numerous courses of scientific and professional interest, including two years of advanced training in Bibliology organised by the Firpo Foundation and the National Library of Turin under the patronage of the DGBIC (‘Libraries Special Collections ‘ in 2018 and ‘Book Binding’ in 2019).

Since her early years in higher education, she worked without interruption at the Royal Library of Turin (now part of the Royal Museums) as a technical assistant with fixed-term contracts, entering the role in 2008 as a part-time and carrying out different tasks over time. From 2009 to 2016 she held positions as sector reference, dealing mainly with protection and enhancement, also accompanying artworks to other domestic and foreign exhibition venues and participating in the curatorship and organisation of exhibitions. In recent years, she mostly devoted her time to cataloguing (ancient and modern book), above all through the recovery of previous cataloguing in SBN. She is currently on extraordinary unpaid leave to pursue doctoral studies.

Between 2002 and 2011 she collaborated with the Tancredi di Barolo Foundation in Turin, participating in the creation and launch of MUSLI (School and Children's Book Museum), and in the organisation of exhibitions and the ‘First international conference on Salgari's fortune abroad’ (2003).

Her PhD research project is aimed at investigating the history of the Italian animated book between 1800 and 1945.